KOSOVO: LAST SERB OCCUPANT LEAVES SECURITY ZONE IN NORTHERN MITROVICA
Tanjug - March 1, 2003

Kosovska Mitrovica, 1 March: Vera Staletovic, 75, left her home in the Bosniak settlement Bosnjacka Mahala in northern Kosovska Mitrovica after ethnic Albanian extremists looted her home.

The last attack, which took place while Staletovic was at Kragujevac hospital, was the final straw since extremists took everything that could be taken from her house.

Staletovic previously called on UNMIK UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo police for protection, but apart from carrying out an investigation, multinational police did nothing to protect the old woman, who was the last Serb living in this settlement in the so-called security zone.

Staletovic is now staying with her children.

The Serb National Council of northern Kosovo-Metohija said that this case showed that multiethnic Kosovska Mitrovica could not function at this point.

Source: Tanjug news agency, Belgrade, in English 1519 gmt 1 Mar 03

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